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Bonnie Raitt returns to Hawaii to perform two concerts next month on Maui and Oahu. The blues-pop singer will perform Jan. 28 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and Jan. 29 at the Waikiki Shell, according to her Web site. Tickets go on sale Dec. 27, but no prices have been announced.
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The last time Raitt performed in Honolulu was 1991 in a benefit concert with Jimmy Buffett; Crosby, Stills & Nash and Jackson Brown for Hurricane Iniki relief. Buffett performs at the Waikiki Shell the night before Raitt and considering their friendship, it's possible he may show up for a duet.
Tickets are on sale, however, for the debut concert of Thrice, a hard rock band out of Orange Country, Calif., whose major label debut is "The Artist In the Ambulance." Tickets are $16.50 for the Jan. 25 show at Pipeline Cafe, and available at the Blaisdell Arena box office, the UH-Manoa Campus Center, all Ticketmaster outlets and all Foodland locations, plus online at ticketmaster.com and charge-by-phone at (877) 750-4400.
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Santa visits market
Santa Claus comes to the Saturday Farmers' Market at Kapiolani Community College this weekend, handing out free tangerines and rambutans from Big Island farmers in celebration of the season.Santa arrives at 9 a.m. in the school's lower parking lot.
Joining the 30 regular vendors this weekend will be three Big Island farms: Lesley Hill and Michael Crowell of Wailea Ag Group in Hilo with hearts of palm and fresh nutmeg; Bob Cooper of the Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory in Kona with Hawaii-grown and processed chocolate bars; and Trevor Orr of Honaunau Coffee Co. with 100 percent Kona coffee in freeze-dried form, as well as ground and whole beans.
Serving breakfast will be Indigo Restaurant, offering udon.
The Saturday Farmers' Market is open weekly, 8 a.m. to noon, a project of the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and The Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Kapiolani Community College.
Along with fresh produce, the vendors offer naturally raised beef, farm-raised moi, Kauai shrimp, smoked island fish, artisanal breads, handmade pastas, desserts, flowers, coffee, plants, snacks and preserves. Call 848-2074.
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The Spam Museum in miniature lights up from within.
The gift of Spam
For the true Spam lover on your gift list, consider a light-up miniature version of the Spam Museum. It's Spam with subtlety -- not a screaming blue and yellow can, but a quaint little model of a brick building created by the same company -- Department 56 -- that makes those little light-up Christmas villages.As such, it a collectible both for Spam-o-philes and for those who've been accumulating pieces for their in-home villages. Department 56's Snow Village series consists of glittery miniatures with names like "Woodlake Chapel" and "McGuire's Irish Pub," reflecting small-town American nostalgia.
The 7-inch-high miniature sells for $63.25 and only 5,000 were produced. It is sold only by the Spam Museum and the Spam Web site, www.spamgift.com.
The Web site, by the way, offers a full line of Spam stuff, from T-shirts and caps to snow globes and basketballs.
Pillsbury wants you
Yes, you could be a millionaire. All it takes is a recipe worthy of winning the Pillsbury Bake-Off.Entries are being accepted in the contest, with its $1 million grand prize, to be held June 26 to 29 in Hollywood, Calif.
Categories are Breakfast Favorites, Weekends Made Special, Dinner Made Easy, and Fast Snacks and Appetizers. Winners in each category will take home $10,000 each; runners-up earn $5,000.
The competition is open to amateur cooks age 13 and over.
Enter online at www.pillsbury.com/bakeoff or write Pillsbury Bake-Off Entry Form Request, P.O. Box 7200, Melville, N.Y. 11775-7200.
Entries must be postmarked by March 13.
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